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Of Google Hotel Finder and comparing Apple, Microsoft & Google
In an interesting critique of Google Hotel Finder, these lines stood out: As Google grows, its willingness to float bad products is starting to seem a little bit similar to Microsoft, ten years ago. You know what’s also similar? Its … Continue reading
Bespin Gotchas
In case of trouble connecting to Bespin from an external machine, try setting the IP address to 0.0.0.0 Either change the file pavement.py: 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 server=Bunch( # set to true to … Continue reading
Talk about UI failure
So you won’t let me get to the content just because “there are no surveys available in my country”? Thanks Tinypaste! Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!
Get email updates when your IP changes/ Python DynDns update client
I use DynDns to map my ISP provided dynamic IP to a static hostname. For some reason, the DynDns provided update clients don’t always work for me and often leave my hostname pointing to a dead or (worse) someone else’s … Continue reading
Reliance Wireless broadband auto-login (and logout) script(s)
The old “curl” based method stopped working yesterday when Reliance got a new login page as well as a new backend. It seems Reliance is now also looking at Cookies during authentication. Here’s a little Python script that you can … Continue reading